Editing Kurt Schwitters (section)

==Posthumous reputation==

===Merzbarn===
One entire wall of the Merzbarn was removed to the [[Hatton Gallery]] in [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]] for safe keeping. The shell of the barn remains in Elterwater, near [[Ambleside]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Philip Oltermann |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/28/kurt-schwitters-dadaism-barn-cumbria |title=Kurt Schwitters, the great dadaist of Cumbria &#124; Art and design |newspaper=The Guardian |date=28 April 2009 |access-date=2012-02-17 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205194548/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/28/kurt-schwitters-dadaism-barn-cumbria |archive-date=5 December 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.merzbarn.net/movingthemerzwal.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126054737/http://www.merzbarn.net/movingthemerzwal.html|url-status=dead|title=Merzbarn|archive-date=26 January 2013|access-date=16 November 2019}}</ref>
<ref>The site has now been purchased from its former owners and will house a digital replica of the wall in Newcastle, and, eventually, a Kurt Schwitters study centre.</ref> In 2011 the barn, but not the artwork inside it, was reconstructed in the front courtyard of the [[Royal Academy]] in London as part of its exhibition ''Modern British Sculpture''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Learn More: The Merz Barn by Kurt Schwitters |url=http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/modernbritishsculpture/learn-more-the-merz-barn-kurt-schwitters,1427,AR.html |publisher=The Royal Academy |access-date=22 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224035535/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/modernbritishsculpture/learn-more-the-merz-barn-kurt-schwitters,1427,AR.html |archive-date= 24 December 2012 }}</ref>

===Influences===
[[File:Grave kurt schwitters.jpg|thumb|The grave of Kurt Schwitters in Hanover]]

Many artists have cited Schwitters as a major influence, including [[Ed Ruscha]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_6_35/ai_n14693958|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090628130731/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1285/is_6_35/ai_n14693958|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 June 2009|title=Arquivo.pt|website=arquivo.pt|access-date=16 November 2019}}</ref> [[Robert Rauschenberg]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-Rauschenberg-EN/ENS-rauschenberg-EN.htm |title=Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou |publisher=Centrepompidou.fr |access-date=2012-02-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212123208/http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-Rauschenberg-EN/ENS-rauschenberg-EN.htm |archive-date=12 February 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[Damien Hirst]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy/ |title=Tate Online; See under The Artist>biography |publisher=Tate.org.uk |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622152233/http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy/ |archive-date=22 June 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Al Hansen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/hansen.html |title=Catalogue by claudia zanfi, exhibition Milan 2003 |publisher=Designboom.com |access-date=2012-02-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305170804/http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/hansen.html |archive-date= 5 March 2012 }}</ref> [[Anne Ryan (artist)|Anne Ryan]], and [[Arman]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T004080?q=Arman&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1|title=Grove Online Dictionary of Art, available subscription only|access-date=16 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510223447/https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000004080?_start=1&pos=1&q=Arman&search=quick#firsthit|archive-date=10 May 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

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"The language of Merz now finds common acceptance and today there is scarcely an artist working with materials other than paint who does not refer to Schwitters in some way. In his bold and wide-ranging experiments he can be seen as the grandfather of Pop Art, Happenings, Concept Art, Fluxus, multimedia art and post-modernism." Gwendolyn Webster<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/schwitters.html |title=Artchive Online |publisher=Artchive.com |date=8 January 1948 |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050528130404/http://www.artchive.com/artchive/S/schwitters.html |archive-date=28 May 2005 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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